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So remember how there was all that talk about how the Verizon Motorola Droid X could not be hacked, rooted, jailbroken, etc. because of a system protection technology known as eFuse? Well, while the blogosphere was busy passing around rumors that the Motorola Droid X would brick itself if you tried to gain root access,…
So, you’ve got an AT&T Samsung Captivate in hand, and you want to get some root only applications like SetCPU, CacheMate, or Root Explorer onto your Samsung Galaxy S variant, do you? Well, you’re in luck, we have put together a handy little guide that should make it easy for you to do with your…
So, say you’re stoked on your new iPhone 4 and the integrated 5-megapixel camera’s ability to shoot really high quality 720p HD video, but you just can’t seem to steady your caffeine-and-sugar fueled hands enough to record a decently smooth video clip. What do you do? Well, you can either buy an expensive steadycam rig…
So you’ve got your brand new Samsung Vibrant, and you want to root it, do you? Good news for you, it’s actually very easy to get root access on this handset. *NOTE* This will likely void your warranty, and you should do this at your own risk. We take no responsibility if you turn your…
These days, you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone actually using a pencil for writing, but it seems there’s still a healthy market for pencils being used as iPad stands. That’s right, we said it. An iPad stand made out of pencils. Forget paying for an iPad stand that’s only capable of holding your iPad…
By now you’re probably more than familiar with the iPhone 4 signal reception issues related to its cellular antenna. The stand-out design element on the iPhone – the stainless steel band that frames the new Apple smartphone – is also the bane of Apple and Steve Jobs’ PR team right now. Turns out, that sexy…
At the Google I/O, the Cloud-to-Device API was announced, and while it’s mainly intended for developers to integrate into their own applications, you can start pushing links, directions, and files from your desktop Chrome or Firefox browser to your Froyo‘d Android phone today! This is a simple how-to to get this up and running on…
Yesterday we told you that the Android 2.1 update is being rolled out to the Motorola Droid, but only to about 10,000 people it’s first day. As the roll out continues, those of you who can’t bare waiting any longer now have another way of getting some 2.1 love. As done before, we knew it…
Your dilemma : You just bought the Nexus One, and just discovered the recently announced HTC Desire. A small heart attack follows. Almost identical internally to your Nexus One, the Desire has the gorgeous HTC Sense user interface running on top of Android 2.1, and you can’t help but think you jumped the gun with your new…
It’s only been a handful of days since Apple released their iPhone OS 3.1.3 firmware update through iTunes, and the iPhone Dev Team has already come out with a way to jailbreak the new firmware. The new firmware does little more than fix buggy battery level indicators and Japanese language keyboards, so most of you…